Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But how worried should you really be? Jacob Aron sifts through the evidence ...

Helena Saremba is a freelance science writer from Germany. She reports on health, climate and the life sciences, with a ...

A hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much to tell us about nature on ...

Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numeracy tests at age 3 to 4, ...

Small bursts of mindfulness practices lasting a minute or less can have unexpected benefits for those with busy lives - ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

Mathematicians have discovered a new infinity, one that is so strange that it could change how we understand logic, numbers ...

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin ...

There is relatively little information on the long-term health effects of tattooing, but a couple of recent studies suggest ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an unusual experiment is deliberately pumping out greenhouse gas to measure how flora and ...